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Scope of work

With in-depth basic and application oriented research on correlations between microstructure and mechanical properties of metallic and ceramic materials, the section „Materials Mechanics“ of IEK-2 considerably contributes to materials development and improvement for flexible, high-efficiency energy conversion processes. The actual research work focuses on steels for power plant and fuel cell applications, Ni-superalloys, structural ceramics, mixed ion-electron conducting functional ceramics, thermal barrier coating systems for gas turbines, and reactive-brazed metal-ceramics compounds. Numerous projects involving partners from industry assure the direct transfer of the scientific results into application.
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Ceramic Materials

Laboratory

In the laboratories of IEK-2’s materials mechanics section numerous testing machines and advanced methods for mechanical and thermo-mechanical characterization of ceramic and metallic materials as well as of compound materials and ceramic thermal barrier coatings are available.
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